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TOBY-DOG

Would you like me to look out and tell you what one
sees from the carriage window?

KIKI-THE-DEMURE

Everything is equally odious to me.

TOBY-DOG, (having looked out, comes back)

I haven’t seen anything....

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (bitterly)

Thanks just the same.

TOBY-DOG

I mean I haven’t seen anything that’s
easy to describe. Some green things which pass
right close to us—­so close and so fast that
they give one a slap in the eye. A flat field
turning ’round and ’round and over there,
a little pointed steeple—­it’s running
as fast as the carriage. Another field all red
with blossoming clover has just given me another slap
in the eye—­a red slap. The earth is
sinking in—­or else we’re going up,
I’m not sure which. I see way off, far
away, some green lawns dotted with white daisies—­perhaps
they’re cows.